Chapter 1543 Chapter 1536: Leaving the Bubble
Seeing Wei Wuyin interact with the Endless Void Mirror, actively softening the sealing restrictions established and nullifying the passive interference of spatial manipulative arts, spells, armaments, and tools, the one-armed elderly man nodded slightly while steering the ship. With this, leaving while executing the ship's stellar transit functions to evade those pesky Sages was possible.
Just had to aim for beyond the Faux-Immortal Sky Source Seal; his spiritual strength subtly interacted with the ship's core that powered all the formations and arrays placed throughout its external shell and internal rooms, galvanizing extraordinary spatial power. While this spatial power wasn't powered by Void Energy, there was a unique energy source that made it no less inferior in some ways.
The fluctuations caused Su Mei's eyes to glisten with spiritual brilliance. She sensed a dense light energy flow beneath her feet. Her attunement to light energies produced preternatural levels of sensitivity to all things light. Her eyes observed the congregating flow of light into a central part of this white vessel, subtly outlining every formation within.
Within the blink of an Ascended's eye, she mentally counted each independent and interwoven formation, establishing either small supportive functions or a comprehensive array that allowed for movement through various terrains such as air, water, earth, and void, including regulating atmospheric conditions and refining external chaos mana to replenish its spent energies.
It was almost self-sustaining.
There were segments of formations she didn't understand or their functions she couldn't guess with all her knowledge. It was beyond her level.
She wasn't the only one whose attention was glued to these changes and energy-based reactions. Cao Cuifen, Luo Ning, Yao Houyi, Shui Fengbao, and Yue Songli were all engrossed in various aspects of the ship's functions. Some they understood based on their understanding of their respective cultivation methods, others they grasped by comprehending advanced principles of cultivation, while a few things were completely baffling to them and drew their interest.
"Woah! There's a strange type of fire energy gathering. Is it an additional propulsion force? It feels like a type of mixture of spatial energy and fire energies at the mystic-grade," Shui Fengbao audibly said. Focus immediately drew to his area of attention, and almost everyone was engrossed heavily in the discovery.
Almost everyone.
Young Master Shang sighed wistfully as he took a sip of his flagon. While Wei Wuyin had mentioned cultivation and piqued his interest, the sight of Yue Songli left him in sorrow. As for their excitement, while it was interesting to observe their novel reactions, it couldn't offset the somberness in his heart.
He knew the situation was just not ideal. If he could change it, he would, but the cultivation world was something like that. He just had to accept it. Right?
The one-armed elderly man's gaze swept across the group. Their vividly awed reactions were reflected clearly within his gaze. Just as he arrived at Yue Songli and Wei Wuyin's immortal-like figures, as if wanting to see their colorful reactions, the latter met his gaze head-on. The silvery shine within his eyes was unnaturally attractive, like an illusory reflection of a full moon across a lake's surface. When matched with his looks, Wei Wuyin gave off an extraordinary quality that existed on an existential level, as if he could imprint himself upon one's mind.
Wei Wuyin's lips lifted into an unforgettable smile.
The one-armed elderly man replied with a faint smile before looking away, returning to focusing on piloting the ship to depart from this Ancient Sealed Region and the Endless Void Mirror. When that happened, he could fully release his Soul Lock of Lawful Authority Spell, regaining his true cultivation.
While the one-armed elderly man had announced earlier that they were coming close to the border, the vast starry skies revealed no specific border, wall, or obstruction of any kind. At least, not to the visible eye or spiritual sense.
The Endless Void Mirror's starry skies were a real illusion. It was contradictory to describe an illusion as real, but reality was as such. The starry skies DID exist. The vast depiction of endless stars in every direction was real, and the astronomical phenomenon that could be observed from the Ancient Sealed Regions was real, except the distance was not. The direction was not.
You could travel in a straight line for billions upon billions of years within the Ancient Sealed Region and never take a single inch beyond a certain point, only cycling around this unseen 'border' of the eighteen stellar regions as if gliding across the inside of a bubble. While you can see outside the transparent bubble, leaving the bubble was difficult without popping it.
Only by placing straws previously in this bubble while it was forming was the outside world capable of interacting with the inside. Connected to these bubbles was the Endless Voyage Realm and the straws were the nodes that siphoned energies and essences from both worlds to function or shuttle individuals to and back.
Meanwhile, the distance of the stars was visibly quadrillions upon quadrillions of miles away relative to their true distance; the Ancient Sealed Region had always been within the Infernal Sovereign's territory, the Ascended Sovereign of the Titan Race! It wasn't segregated or split off, but within the territory itself, surrounded by it.
Young Master Shang sighed as he eyed the real illusion of the starry skies. "The quasi-supreme Heavenly Treasure this world was made in is quite spectacular. It's rather unfortunate that it's being used for something like this when it has so much potential." The sigh he heaved was enough to feel his honest opinions on the matter.
"Quasi-Supreme?" Shui Fengbao's eyes brightened alongside the others. The term was interesting because it was new. They learned of Heavenly Treasures and knew they were tools forged or crafted by cultivators at peak Mystic Ascendant Realm experts, and knew that it meant the ability to formulate a resonance with the Three Thousand Realms of Law, emulating the notorious Edict of a Sage.Additionally, Supreme Heavenly Treasures were tools that could invoke a true Edict of the Sage, forged by cultivators beyond the Mystic Ascendant Realm, touching upon the Resonant Soul Realm!
Wei Wuyin taught them this high-level knowledge a long time ago, and they grasped this detail firmly, hoping to never miss a heavenly treasure should they come across one in their journey. They even knew of the Endless Void Mirror's Heavenly Treasure classification.
But quasi-supreme?
"Yeah," Young Master Shang took another sip of his flagon, observing as Wei Wuyin used the Endless Void Mirror to structure a temporary straw within this isolated world, maintaining the stability of the world. It was impeccable control.
Cao Cuifen gave the two a sidelong glance and inwardly pouted. This was an expected reaction in the one-armed elderly man's mind as Wei Wuyin had once brazenly claimed Cao Cuifen as his, but was now actively showing love only to a younger, bustier, and more beautiful woman.
He didn't blame Wei Wuyin at all, however. He focused his attention on recovering, taking out a low-tier Mystic-World fast-acting recuperation elixir and drinking it without hesitation.
The Stellar Transit Light made it difficult for those to see where they were going or what was going on around them. Because of this, Wei Wuyin stayed on the deck and closely guarded everyone. The Stellar Transit Light lasted for an entire three days, a full seventy-two hours, as if there was a specific maximum of energy stored within. The rainbow veil around them slowly began to dissipate.
When they looked around at the patches of openings, they saw endless starry skies in every direction. There wasn't a planet or signs of life for a hundred million miles. Where were they?
Young Master Shang lifted his head and took the largest gulp since. The sounds of his swallowing were continuous.
Shui Fengbao felt that the alcoholic young master was about to drown himself in drink. He had never seen someone so attached to their flagon as he took a sip at least once every minute without rest. It was excessive.
Shui Fengbao finally grew worried and asked, "Are you-"
Whoosh!
A rising gust of mana, air, and heat interrupted his words. His fiery red eyes instantly constricted as he felt a rising aura from a single, seated figure. It was tyrannical, forceful, and almost god-like. He found his soul had grown still before such a mighty presence! He couldn't breathe!
He wasn't alone!
They all focused on the one-armed elderly man as his aura began to rise to the heavens, a dark reddish, almost bloody light piercing into the starry skies for millions of miles!
"Finally," the one-armed elderly man said as he flexed his thin arms. The spiritual senses of everyone present scrambled and lost their focus, only the physical senses could see the all-mighty aura flourishing to the high heavens. It was extraordinary!
His Soul Lock of Lawful Authority was removed!
"Is this a Heavenly Saint?!" Cao Cuifen was astonished to the extreme, barely capable of getting any words.
Wei Wuyin observed the elderly man as his expression slowly revealed intense shock. "You're at the Ascended Saint Phase?!" He was caught off-guard, his reaction the perfect color of surprise and disbelief.
"Ascended Saint?" The one-armed elderly man faintly smiled, a tinge of ill intent hung lightly on those thin lips. Then, he looked at Su Mei. "I'm a Sage!"
Su Mei's pupils constricted instantly!
He launched a fist! It was simple, lacking any flourish, but carried an invisible force that made it impossibly fast and unimaginably strong!
"NO!!" Wei Wuyin shouted as he manifested Element. Before he could even make a move, however, the fist had already smashed into Su Mei. As a mere mortal facing an attack from a True Sage Phase cultivator, she didn't even have the time to cry out.
There was no explosion.
There was no bloody splash.
Her body simply vanished. She was destroyed on an atomic level with a single fist!
Dead!
Not even her soul remained.
"NOOOOOOOO!!!" A cry that could be heard by the Heavenly Daos themselves resounded. A hellish killing intent beyond anything one could imagine engulfed the heavens, dimmed the stars, and annihilated space!
Wei Wuyin swung his saber!